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Spiky Strings, Light-Like Wilson Loops and the pp-Wave Anomaly
- Hosted by:
- Imperial College London
- Speaker:
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Martin Kruczenski, Purdue University
- Starts:
- June 05, 2008 at 04:00 pm
- Ends:
- June 05, 2008 at 05:00 pm
- Location:
- Imperial College London, Huxley Building, H503, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ United Kingdom
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Description
I am going to review, in the context of gauge theories, the anomalous dimension of twist two operators, the cusp anomaly of Wilson loops and how they relate through AdS/CFT to rotating strings in AdS space. Then I am going to describe in more detail the spiky strings and their properties for large spin which allows us to obtain a relation between the anomalous dimension of twist two operators and the pp-wave anomaly, an anomaly we find when N=4 SYM theory is put in a pp-wave background. Finally, I am going to consider various new open string solutions describing Wilson loops in a pp-wave and in flat space.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
